Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Monday night saw me playing with tea lights, a small metal table, a mirror, and my 50mm lens... (it also saw me trying to keep Pepper from jumping on said table and creating a whole new photo session, possibly involving emergency Vet treatment).

I took these using various apertures - f/1.8 gives beautiful bokeh. Processed in LR4 - I boosted the clarity and the contrast, and because the colour was very orange, I went into the separate channels, lowering the reds and upping the greens to give more golden tones.

Saturday, 2 March 2013

We made the most of the sunshine today and headed for Stratford upon Avon, as we walked along the River Avon an obliging swan swam over to have his photo taken. I thought he was going to have a go at my wide-angle lens but he just growled at it!

I've downloaded the free trial version of LightRoom 4 and am enjoying playing with it at the moment - I never thought I'd desert my old version of LR, but I'm loving being able to do curve adjustments for different colour channels, plus LR4 has an amazing ability to rescue blown highlights (not that I ever GET blown highlights of course :O)), so I think I may be swayed. Have a great weekend everyone.

Friday, 1 March 2013

Happy St David's Day everyone, or Happy 1st March if you're not Welsh or haven't got an inkling who or what St David was!

A cold, grey day today but there were some clouds posing nicely in the background when I took a pic of a tree... oh and we found a witch's hat on sale for 33p so immediately bought it and took its photo :O)

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I'm a UK based photographer - this blog accompanies my Barbara Jackson Photography business and contains more of my images, along with assorted ramblings on food, cats and photography techniques. All photographs are copyright Barbara Jackson Photography. Please don't post or use them without my permission or I'll not be best pleased and bad karma will be yours eternally.